Andrew Watts
A trial is underway Wednesday in Macomb County Circuit Court in the trial of a man prosecutors say murdered Amir Hudson, 36, because he was ashamed that he was engaging in gay sex.
Jameson Cook of The Macomb Daily reports that Andrew Watts, 25, had sex with Hudson, who paid him for the acts with marijuana. Authorities have charged that Watt's fatally shot Amir a year ago in Amir's Warren home.
Assistant Prosecutor Sunita Doddamani said in opening statements that Watts was “rattled” about his relationship with Hudson, a Philadelphia native and former college football player who paid him in “weed” for sexual acts.
“Andrew Watts considered himself a Christian,” Doddamni said. “He believed what he was doing was shameful . . . even though he did them consensually.”
Watt's attorney Richard Glanda, said his client suffers from mental illness and did not premeditate the murder but rather was upset after he performed oral sex on Hudson for the first time after Hudson had performed oral sex on him in prior encounters, the Macomb Daily writes.
“He didn’t want to do it,” Glanda said, according to the paper. “He was forced.”
